The landscape along Lake Michigan on Chicago’s South Side has utterly changed over the past century. If you’re looking for the beaches where Chicago’s race riot erupted on July 27, 1919, you won’t find them. As I was researching a history of the riot for Chicago magazine, I searched for maps, documents, and details that […]
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In Chicago magazine: The 1919 race riot
Chicago’s Top Chefs (Circa 1900)
The History of the Solo Cup, From the South Side to Star Wars
Q&A with Steve James
‘Breakfast at Ina’s’ at Chicago Film Festival
Chicago Magazine, October 2015 — Ina Pinkney can’t leave her house in Buena Park without being recognized. “There isn’t a time when somebody doesn’t say, ‘I miss your restaurant’?” she says. “Grocery store, Staples, the Apple Store—I mean, just anywhere I go.” As the owner of a bakery and three popular eateries over a span of […]
Film review: ‘Hogtown’
The 10 best Chicago documentaries
Michael Abramson’s photos of 1970s Chicago nightclubs
Chicago magazine, October 2014 — As a graduate student at the Illinois Institute of Technology in the late 1970s, photographer Michael Abramson spent a lot of time in clubs with names like Perv’s House and Pepper’s Hideout… Read more — and see some of Abramson’s photos — in Chicago magazine. Photo by Michael Abramson